Focus case outside of Austronesian: An analysis of Kolyma Yukaghir

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2014.10

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Case is traditionally approached as a lexical phenomenon in HPSG. The LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system, an HPSG-based grammar engineering toolkit and also a typological meta-resource, includes several options for case assignment, and one of them, ˋfocus case', assumes that case of the participants in basic clauses is handled via lexical rules rather than lexical entries. This phenomenon was previously only attributed to a group of Austronesian languages, and thus the focus case differed from all other case options in the Matrix which were attested for across language families. Our analysis of Kolyma Yukaghir, a nearly extinct language of North-Eastern Russia, shows that focus case can be successfully used outside of Austronesian family and therefore that the option is more universal than it was previously thought.

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2014-10-15

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Zamaraeva, Olga & Bender, Emily M. 2014. Focus case outside of Austronesian: An analysis of Kolyma Yukaghir. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 176–196. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2014.10) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/818) (Accessed March 28, 2024.)